Kerrang! award nominations announced

LONDON, UK (Kerrang! Awards Website) - The Kerrang! Award nominations have been announced and The Darkness are up for three awards - Best British Newcomer, Best Album and Best Live Act.

Gay Bar by Electric 6 is nominated for Best Video and Best Single, and Evanesence are shortlisted for Best International Newcomer and Best Single, says the BBC Radio 1 website.

The Kerrang! nominations in full are:

Best British Newcomer: Funeral for a Friend; The Darkness; This Girl; Million Dead; Winnebago Deal:

Best International Newcomer: Evanesence; Finch; The Mars Volta; Poison the Wall; The Used;

Best Single: Good Charlotte - Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous; Foo Fighters - All My Life; Electric 6 - Gay Bar; Linkin Park - Faint; Evanesence - Bring me to Life;

Best Video: Electric 6 - Gay Bar; Audioslave - Cochise; Murderdolls - White Wedding; Marilyn Manson - Mob Scene; Foo Fighters - Low:

Best Album: Deftones - Deftones; White Stripes - Elephant; Metallica - St Anger; The Darkness - Permission to Land; HIM - Love Metal;

Best Live Act: The Darkness; Sum 41; Reel Big Fish; Iron Maiden; The Murderdolls;

Best British Band: Feeder; InMe; Hell is for Heroes; Muse; Stereophonics;

Best International Band: Metallica; Linkin Park; Good Charlotte; System of a Down; Red Hot Chili Peppers;

Event of the Year: Download; Glastonbury; Reading/Leeds; V2003; T in the Park;
The awards ceremony takes place on August 21.